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Originally Posted by Skywave
Many years ago, a design engineer with whom I used to work, told me one of his favourite mottos: "You can't have too much decoupling". O.K., you could take that to a ridiculous extreme case  , but the general idea is sound.
Al. |
I've sometimes wondered if commercial designers build a prototype with plentiful decoupling (i.e. the amount that someone inclined to do the job "properly" would use) and that decoupling is then incrementally snipped out until the functioning is significantly impaired. (Keeping bean-counters happy).
"Right- put that last capacitor back, and sign it off for production".
I wouldn't be surprised....